Improved paper-collar box



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EDWARD A. Locks AND WILLIAM n. WERDEN, or BOSTON, MAS..

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`Letters Patent No. 92,850, dated July 20, 1869.

:Mr novnn PAPER-coma Box The Schedule :eferred to in these Lettera Patent and making part ci' the same.

' WILLIAM N. WEEDEN, both of Boston, in the count-y of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented,

an improved Paper-Collar Box; and we do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and' form part of this speciiication, is a description of our invention, sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practise it.

In preparing packages of paper collars for sale as articles ot' wearing apparel, it is customary to put 'them np in papel' boxes, each package in a box by itself, the box forming a convenient receptacle, both for containing the collars for sale, as a package, and in which the purchaser can-,keep them unsoiled until wanted for use.

Now, the manufacture of paper collars has become so extensive, and the collars made by the various manntacturers are sonearly alike as 'regardsstyle and quality, tha-t extraordinary means have to be taken by each manufacturer to induce consumers to buy his collars in preference to others; these means consist-` ing in fancyV names, fancy finish, ornamental boxes, 85o.

Our invention relates to the construction of boxes for containing packages of collars, or of other articles to be sol'd in boxes, with reference to giving to each box a value ulterior to lits value as a receptacle for the collars or other articles of merchandise.

Our invention consists in a box, made as an optical instrument, that is to say, in a box, the central part vot' one end of which is `provided with an eye-glass'or a denotes thel body or cylindrical case of a common' collar-box.

b, the head thereof.

c, the cover, of which l is the rim or flange.

At the centre of the head b or of the cover c (preferably ofthe former,) is an aperture, d2, for the eye-hole,

and through the centre. of the opposite end is a larger opening, on one side of which is applied an objectglass or transparency, e, and to the other side a transparent, or semi-transparent piece, f, inthe space betweenwhich are placed series of small objects g, to be viewed through the box.

Extending through the box is a hollow prism, preferably made up of three strips, the inner surfaces of two or `more-of which are reflectors.

vspace occupied by the kaleidoscope.

As will be readily understood, the prism, eye-glass, or aperture, and'object-holder make up akal eidoscope, the lobjects viewed through the small end being formed into symmetrical figures by reiiection, as in the common kaleidoscope, and being changed, asin the common kaleidoscope, by rotation of the box, or of the 'cover, or object-containing chamber.

lAs the collars are folded Within the box, and spring outward toward the wall, a vacant space is always left through the centreof the box,.and this is the Thus,the box is not only a collar-containing case, but is also a kaleidoscope, and may be Vused both when occupied by collars and when empty as a kaleidoscope.

In making the kaleidoscope, one piece of pasteboard may be used to form the whole prismastic case, the board being partially ont through to make, two of the angles, and thevcdgcsbutted and secured together by a pasted strip, j, to form the third angle While to secure the case to tne box-head, the strip of pasteboard is 'out ot4 a widthgreater than the length of the Ikaleidoscope., so that end pieces `h may be bent down and pasted to the inner surface of the'head, as s een at A.

rlhe retlecting-sulfaces within the kaleidoscope-.tube may be formed of two or three strips of japanned Iron.

Instead of the object-containing chamber, a picture may be placed across the large opening, and the ka- -leidoscopeetube may then be dispensed with, a round tube extending through the box, or no tubeat all Abeing usechas may be desirable.

Andthe head of the box may be made of a semitransparent sheet, upon which is printed, or over which is placed a transparent, or semi-transparent picture, which maybe seen through the eye-glass or aper-v ture d.

Or a small lens may be placed in the aperture d, with a picture on the inner side thereof, the picture being magnified and seen in anw-enlarged form through theeye-glass or lens, by looking towards the object- Aglass or opposite transparent surface ofthe hox.

It will readily be seen that by making boxes with reference to such temporary or ultimate use, as optical instruments, an obvious advantage is secured'by the manufacturer of goods to be vsold in such boxes, enabling a dealer to obtain sales for the goods when no sales` could otherwise be effected.

We claim a box adapted for containing paper collars or other articles, and having an eye-glass or aperture vat one end, vand an object-glass, .or transparent or semi-transparent medium at the opposite end, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

v EDWARD A. LOCKE. A WILLIAM N. WEEDEN. Witnsses:

FRANCIS GoULD, S. B. KIDDER, 

